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Title: exchange-server-clone for SME
Post by: Klaus Eckert on December 03, 2003, 03:00:40 AM: Hello everybody

i know that this was discussed eralier in this forum.
the "search" did not help me very well with my question.

so i ask again:
is there a powerful exchange-server-clone for SME or at least linux?
i had a look at "exchange4linux", "insight manager" and "samsung contact server".
but it seems that none of them is a real exchange-clone.

any other suggestions?
any hints?

please, forbear from telling me to use M$ exchange...

cheers klaus
Title: Re: exchange-server-clone for SME
Post by: Del on December 03, 2003, 06:09:59 AM: Hi Klaus,
Try http://www.opengroupware.org
this address will take you to a howto for SME
http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo@lists.e-smith.org/msg11934.html
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Del
Title: Re: exchange-server-clone for SME
Post by: Michiel on December 03, 2003, 11:01:07 AM: > i had a look at "exchange4linux", "insight manager" and
> "samsung contact server".
> but it seems that none of them is a real exchange-clone.

What features are you looking for that are not in one of these alternatives?
Title: Re: exchange-server-clone for SME
Post by: Klaus Eckert on December 03, 2003, 05:38:07 PM: does any of them combine all exchange-functions?
we need email, public folders, private calendar, public calendar, private adressbook, public adressbook.

does anybody have experiences with one of them?
are there server-manager-panels for one of them?

cheers klaus
Title: Re: exchange-server-clone for SME
Post by: Tim Litwiller on December 04, 2003, 02:23:27 AM: The link on that page is out of date - if was impossible for me to resolve all the problems running opengroupware on sme 5.6 so it has been removed. Currently I am playing with merging sme 6 and fedora so that I will have a moderm linux base to run opengroupware on and still have the ease of configuration for a client to add users etc.
Title: Re: exchange-server-clone for SME
Post by: Stephen Sloan on December 04, 2003, 04:13:41 PM: You might want to check out Bynari Connector, seems to do what you want.

http://www.bynari.net/index.php?id=500
Title: Re: exchange-server-clone for SME
Post by: guestHH on December 04, 2003, 05:13:39 PM: I guess it's time to take a look at www.phpgroupware.org

it has all you want and more.

There are knwon installation of 2k+ users

Regards,
guestHH
Title: Re: exchange-server-clone for SME
Post by: Jes Brockhoff on December 04, 2003, 05:23:09 PM: See :

http://vanhees.homeip.net/modules/indexer/5.6/HowTo/HowtoOpengroupware_SME_EN.html
Title: Re: exchange-server-clone for SME
Post by: Klaus Eckert on December 04, 2003, 06:05:16 PM: PHPGroupware is not what we want.
we need to connect with M$ Outlook to the Server.

cheers klaus
Title: Re: exchange-server-clone for SME
Post by: Jeff Khoury on December 04, 2003, 06:13:28 PM: Klaus,

I know you said not to say it... You, my friend, need Exchange.

A free, open-source, complete replacement for exchange has not yet been fully implemented. There are some promising projects, but they're not there yet.

I am always the first to try to endorse an open solution, but there are times when you want exactly the feature set of a closed-source product, but it just doesn't exist in the "free" world.
Title: Re: exchange-server-clone for SME
Post by: Boris on December 04, 2003, 07:29:56 PM: Klaus,
Take a look at SUSE openexchange server.
Not free, but cheaper then M$ Exchange and supposedly by far more superior.
I've tested previous version and loved it.
Ver 4.1 just came out and should be even better.
Title: Re: exchange-server-clone for SME
Post by: Rob Wellesley on December 04, 2003, 08:20:28 PM: check out www.vaita.com - US$50 per seat OsaSync Pro

rob